The screaming and fearful neighing of horses is heard from far. If you come closer, you can see the sheer panic in their eyes.Every year, over a weekend in February there is the largest and cruelest horse market in Skaryszew / Poland .

Hundreds of horses (in 2012 about 2000!) were sold there yearly in a cruelty way, then transported across Europe through Italy, France and another countries where they usually end up at a slaughter.

The market and the transport are ruled under terrible conditions: blood on the floor, horses with open fractures in the mud.What atrocity against these highly sensitive animals! Polish animal rights and animal rights activists have been fighting for years against this market.

Sellers and buyers are very drunk, there are polish witnesses and reports about it. By loading and unloading the horses serious accidents happen.

The frightened animals get completely panicked, fight back, be brutally dragged by several men with ropes, horses are falling down and that cause injuries. It happens, they are beaten with a whip. And the drunken crowd applauds.

But there is hope: Because of the horse meat scandal the Polish news agency PAP reported this year, that inspectors from the Veterinary Department and police were on the ground.

That alone, however, is not enough: The law for animal protection in Europe is not uniform and don't protects at present animals from such cruelty.

WE NEED A UNIFORM EUROPE-WIDE ANIMAL WELFARE LAW, INCLUDING ALL EU COUNTRIES!

This requires the will to act of all EU-Member-States – and that's what we must achieve! WE WILL NOT CEASE TO FIGHT FOR IT!

But the suffering of the horses at the market in Skaryszew in Poland must quickly end!

We will no longer stand by silently, not looking away, what happens in our EU neighbor countries.

The goal is to collect 30,000 signatures and hand them over to the most important places, such as Polish Embassy in Berlin, EU politicians, veterinary commissions and so on.

This market needs to be banned! Let us shout out, sign it, fight for it, do everything so that they finally put an end to animal suffering.